replaceall is a Python 2.7/3 module to replace or remove one or more Chars from a given string.
$ pip install replaceall
or
$ easy_install replaceall
remove single Char
from replaceall import replaceall name = replaceall("John Doe!", "!") print(name) "John Doe"replace Chars
from replaceall import replaceall name = replaceall("John Doe#", "#", "!") print(name) "John Doe!"also works with Lists
from replaceall import replaceall replaceCharlist = ["!","@", "#"] name = replaceall("John@Doe#.foo", replaceCharlist, ".") print(name) "John.Doe.foo"